John Oliver, who once spurred his followers to crash the FCC’s website demanding net neutrality, is positively gleeful over the news that the agency has approved rules to regulate the internet like a public utility.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives pretty hilarious and biting interviews in real life — “not 100 percent sober” ringing any bells? — but Kate McKinnon’s version of the “Notorious RBG” on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” may just take the cake. From jokes about her morning exercise routine to her sexy dreams about […]

White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid appeals for bipartisanship, President Barack Obama in just three days has provoked Republicans on issues as disparate as immigration, Wall Street and the Keystone XL pipeline — a combative mix of defense and offense that underscores Washington's political realignment.

Defying the Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, wielding his veto power for only the third time in his presidency.

You know it’s bad when President Obama has even lost the support of MSNBC. MSNBC Host Andrea Mitchell basically called the White House’s Summit on “Countering Violent Extremism” a farce during her show Wednesday. “Here he has the summit, no heads of government coming, the participation has not been at a particularly high level. We’ll have […]

The president’s interview with Re/code over the weekend touched on privacy issues, with Obama insisting with “almost complete confidence” that there have been no abuses of the government’s vast surveillance program.

After a week that saw Republican infighting leading to a dramatic near-shutdown situation for the Department of Homeland Security, House Speaker John Boehner was questioned on CBS’s “Face the Nation” about his leadership. Boehner downplayed the divisions and said that it wasn’t the big picture that they disagreed on, but rather how to accomplish it. […]

Democrats really jumped the gun on this one. It seems that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was in such a hurry to fundraise over their hatred for Republicans this weekend that they were willing to spread a little misinformation to do so. The DCCC emailed supporters Saturday morning incorrectly saying that Republicans had allowed the Department of […]

Rand Paul’s speech at CPAC Friday felt a lot like a campaign rally—and the crowd left little room to doubt that they wanted it that way, breaking out into chants of “President Paul! President Paul!” at least three times over the course of his remarks.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has his sights set on 2016, but he is not very optimistic about what will happen both at home and abroad in the mean time. Cruz laid out his predictions for the direction he believes President Obama is leading the country in during a round table event with reporters and bloggers […]

Obsessed with zombies? Feel like you could run a town? Have a spare $680,000 lying around? If you meet those qualifications, you may just be in luck. Downtown Grantville, Georgia, featured on season three of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is up for sale on eBay, Buzzfeed reported. Grantville used to have a thriving textile industry. […]

Well here’s a story that will make you feel unproductive and inspired all in one fell swoop. Noa Mintz, a 15-year-old living in New York City, has changed up the nannying and babysitting game by creating her own company that matches families to their perfect sitter. The inspiration for Nannies by Noa was a simple […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge blocked Nebraska's gay marriage ban on Monday, but the decision will not take effect for a week and the attorney general's office immediately appealed to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS — Experimental drugs and special care helped make Nina Pham Ebola free. But today she fears she may never escape the deadly disease. The 26-year-old nurse says she has nightmares, body aches and insomnia as a result of contracting the disease from a patient she cared for last fall at Texas […]

Policy

With the King v. Burwell Supreme Court case looking like it could leave Obamacare gutted, Republicans are eager to show that they have ideas for the next steps. Republican Reps. John Kline, Paul Ryan and Fred Upton wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal Monday outlining their “off-ramp out of Obamacare.” Their proposal offers two […]

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in the case that could completely gut Obamacare and a group of Republican senators have come up with what they call a “bridge away from Obamacare” if the court rules in their favor this summer. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) wrote an op-ed […]

Education

The U.S. Department of Education requires a lot of personal information when applying for federal student loans. While that information exchange can help students head to college, it also puts their personal information at risk — a trade-off federal employees appear to have exploited. The Daily Mail reported that multiple Education Department employees have been […]

The U.S. Department of Education has killed its contracts with five companies that collect defaulted federal student loans after finding out that they made “innaccurate representations” to borrowers and presented them with “unacceptably high rates,” according to a news release. The Department said it would end its contracts with Navient-owned Pioneer Credit Recovery, Coast Professional, Enterprise […]

THE HILL — The House passed legislation on Wednesday to enhance college savings plans that initially would have been reduced in President Obama’s budget this year. Passage of the bill, 401-20, comes after the Obama administration backed off a proposal to eliminate tax breaks for the college savings accounts in its fiscal 2016 budget. Nineteen […]

Despite the nearly $22 billion shortfall it created last year, the Obama administration continued its push for a more generous and lenient income-based federal student loan repayment program this week. A federal panel began work Tuesday on a new set of regulations to expand the availability of this repayment program, known as Pay As You […]

These former Everest College students didn’t get their money’s worth from the now-defunct for-profit college and they are protesting with the first-ever “debt strike.” Part of the Occupy Wall Street-inspired Rolling Jubilee group, 15 students announced Tuesday that they are refusing to pay back their federal student loans. They want the federal government to wipe […]